Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] less than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 2 | Additionally , the development of the huge ‘ pot ’ helm , which enclosed all of the head rather than just the skull , made its wearer virtually invulnerable against anything less than a blow delivered with the full weight of a sword or axe . |
| 3 | But with anything less than a gale the house filled with smoke and the door had to be opened . |
| 4 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 5 | This location is almost impossible to reach in anything less than a Jeep . |
| 6 | Derrida , Foucault , Kristeva , Lacan , Barthes : just reeling off their names is ( as Auden said in a very different context ) ever so comfy , since it safely defers the issues at hand to nothing less than a transcendent signified : in short , to a star . |
| 7 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |